MINN

International Executive Master Program in Intrapreneurship and Open Innovation

MINN is a lively, constantly evolving executive learning journey at the service of creative processes, participatory and open environments. The value of MINN lies in a unique team proccess for experimentation and promoting new cross-disciplinary learning. MINN Program started in 2010 to transform leaders and intra/entrepreneurs to be able to transform as well their organizations and project to be more innovative and successful.

MINN is an Executive Master Program created by Mondragon Team Academy (MTA)- Mondragon University and nowadays is happening in in 3 different editions every year:

MINN_Europe: starting in October 2014. Check for more detail HERE.

MINN_China: in collaboration with our parteners in China, and starting in October 2014 Check HERE for more detail HERE

MINN_India: in collaboration with our partners in India, and starting in March 2015. Check HERE for more detail HERE

Introduction

A person full of PASSION and PURPOSE can make a big impact. Do you want to make your dreams come true by creating and transforming your organization through knowledge sharing?

The MINN program was designed and developed for business professionals and entrepreneurs in innovative projects. It is an Executive Master mode, intended to be followed and developed alongside normal working activities.

Ideally the professional participants in the program will already leading self managed teams involved in intrapreneurship within their organizations or intending to embark on similar projects with these characteristics. For these projects to be related to the master, a minimum of 40% personal day to day involvement is required.

The Master is designed so that each participant can share and develop a specific project in your company in parallel with the development of the training program.

The foundational educational philosophies of MINN were developed by special entrepreneurial unit from JAMK Jyvaskyla University of Applied Science (Finland), Team Academy. Team Academy is an international reference in the education field with its methods being used in over 17 schools & universities around the world as well as in multinational companies. The eminently practical dimension of the MINN approach is rooted in practical company action and allows each professional and organization to define their own specific objectives to study the program. Over the years, Team Academy has won several awards in both the education and business sectors.

Profile and Goals

PERSONAL GOALS

Learn, experiment and implement the use of tools for innovation, entrepreneurship, team leadership and strategies/sources of funding for start-ups and intra-enterprise promotion.

Interact with real (local and international entrepreneurial cases) companies in order to explore best practices in the management of intrapreneurship, innovation and collaborative self-managed teams.

Experience a radical learning and innovator experience closely linked to personal passions and professional projects.

Professional network development with people faced with similar challenges and projects.

Methods

We believe in a modern educational model, continuous, active and learning-based:

Focused on the process.

Based on Systems Thinking, proposed by Peter Senge and Knowledge Creation Systems by Nonaka & Takeuchi.

Active learning where the professional and specific project on his hands take the centre stage.

Continuous learning looking for synergies between training seminars and the daily life of the project at the company.

A connected learning community using the latest information and communication technologies to facilitate learning.

Personal analysis of real cases of the latest trends in management models of innovation in organizations.

Incorporating sustainability as a source of innovation.

Combining different individual and team learning tools, the
participant will develop a commitment to the project which is being led whilst deepening their understanding of team leadership and new experiences. MINN master methodology combines the development of a personal learning and team experience in order to achieve new innovative skills.

Modules

The process is designed in 12 modules whith different topics with a location that could vary each year.

M1: Team Learning (Finland)

Basic concepts of the program, individual learning, team learning and comunity learning. To understand and to live the learning to use the basic tools of learning that are used in the program. Networking with local entrepreneurs and companies leaders in innovation.

“Nokia is not a manufacturing company anymore, now it is all about anthropology”

by Pia Erkinheimo [Nokia Crowdsourcing Responsible]

M2: Learning and Co-creation with the Client (Madrid)

Analizing the relation with real market, how to apply specific knowledge in the company processes. How a team coach could connect the organization with potential customers and reinforce their relation? The challenge of creating communities or/and networks.

“The more you share, the more you get”

by Juan Carrete [Media-Lab Prado Director]

M3: The Art of Pitching and Design Thinking (California)

The extraordinary environment of Silicon Valley (California) is key to work over 2 main areas of interest: to know, experience and bring under control the art of pitching will capacitate to the learner of the habilities need to show their project to possible investors, which is the key value of their projects. Besides they learn how to create value for their customers and users through the human center design method of Design Thinking.

“The MINN process has been 100% crucial for me to have a project team and finally deciding to launch the HUB Donostia project along with other incredible people I’ve met thanks to this program”

by Iñigo Blanco [Lecturer and Team Coach at MTA, HUB Donostia founder and Vox Civica Founder]

The learners will go deeper in the personal dimension of the entrepeneurs. The learners will have the opportunity to receive feedback from the leadership dimension aiming to develop the basic dialog abilities improving their individual level performance. Moreover the learner will take an strategic personal view of his personal human interaction and basic competences to improve a better performance.

“Leadership is the capability to reflect”

by Anita Seidler [President of Creative Impact of the Group Creative Society and HUB Madrid Founder]

The learners will go deeper in the intraentrpeenurship spirit or in the development of new innovative projects inside of an organization. Analizing the process of an intrapeneur, put in practice and comprehend specific learning tools about managing new projects.

M6: Open Innovation and Team Evaluation (Amsterdam)

This module is focus in the search of new solutions through open and collaborative innovation. The innovation is happening in a parallel process of the knowledge flow. The learning tools developed and used in Mondragon Team Academy to promote the creativity and the knowledge flow are based in knowledge creation company theory from Nonaka and Takeuchi.

There will be an evaluation in the middle of the master process.

“We must think collectively to get self impact”

by Alfons Cornellá [Infonomia Director]

M7: Blue Ocean Strategy for Team-Intrapreneurship Projects (Zaragoza)

Entrepreneur strategy will be analyzed under the philosophy of Blue Oceans. This theory will be analysed and developed through specific processes and tools that will empower the organization to grow in an innovative context.

“Don’t compete with rivals, make them irrelevant”

by W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne [Blue Ocean Strategy authors]

M8: Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid and Global Challenges (China)

Developing countries are key as a source of innovation and new opportunities in global business. It will be explored the key position of quick developing countries as potential customers, suppliers, and partners in projects. Visiting these countries it will be studied the impact and consequences of social entrepeneneurial projects bring about. Besides it will be focused a common task of how to do business in China.

“The strategy is to achieve ambitious targets from limited resources”

by C.K. Prahalad [Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business in the University of Michigan]

M9: Sustainability as a Trigger to Innovation (India)

The exploration of the sustainability, the green economy and the eco production as boosters of the innovation are part of the new rules in the current entrepreneur’s business. Natural-Step methodology will be shared with the aim to be implemented in the individual and team projects of each MINN members. It will be analysed and shared the impact of social entrepeneurs in Indian society.

“It is possible that the ability to learn faster than your competitors is the only sustainable competitive advantage”

by Peter Senge [Director of the Center for Organizational Learning at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management

M10: Wrap-up and Future (Irun / Oñate / Bilbao)

The crystallization of the complete learning process and the different points of view are shared among the participants. Each participant will sum up the learnings and will analyse the personal development as team-entrepeneur and as team coach in their projects. It will be the place to prepare the future and to place a common ground where to take the first steps to plan the collaboration of other members in and out of the projects.

“Cooperatives are all about people, it’s not about the company”

by Jose Mari Luzarraga [Team Coach at Mondragon Team Academy]

M11: Check Out (Finland)

The process starts in Finland in an special environment to understand again the learning process, qualify the personal leadership and development in the organization, learn to interact in a changing environment, learn how to work in self-managing teams and understand the world in key of collaboration. The end of the process happens in Finland where it is celebrated the personal and professional transformation of the participants.

“When you are able to imagine your creative invention, you can make it real. Anything that a mind can imagine a person is able to create“

by Johannes Partanen [Founder and Head Coach of Team Academy]

M12: Scored Goals (Berlin)

This extra module will be focus to review the path of each participant/project, what is happening after MINN. Each team member feedback and from teamcoaches aims to guide and facilitate the process of business consolidation. The indicators analysed will be the number of companies created, the invoicing generated, new customers, results of the personal and company projects.

“You have to travel far to see near”

by Mahatma Ghandi [Spiritual Leader]

Experiences

“Getting out the comfort zone was what I really needed”

by Jordi Martí, @itortv
The INIT & Karmacracy, MINN1 participant

“MINN is a great way to understand what is going on in
the world. This journey with global knowledge has been very relevant for
me in my project”

by Juan Freire,@jfreire
Profesor Titular de la Universidad de A Coruña y Director de Innovación en Barrabes.biz, MINN2 Team Coach

“How can we actually combine ideas from all these
different minds to create something that none of them could have created
individually? The first step actually is always chaos: we are
no-professors, you are no-students, we want project teams with real
customers”

Learning calendar / Calendario lectivo/ Eskola egutegia:

Hours:

Place:

Main Campus:

Mondragon Unibertsitatea >> Business Faculty.

Collaborating centers:

Team Academy >> Jyvaskyla University of Appliance Science (Finland).

Mondragon División Conocimiento.

*The workshops will take place
mainly in Basque Country and statewide (Barcelona-Madrid) depending on
the real case studies with host-companies of the workshops. These
workshops will start at Thursdays from 10:00 until Saturdays at 15:00.
There are inncluded three learning journeys to Finland, San Francisco
and China / India.